"Good physics can be done if we have a good shop. … Given a good shop and good measurement equipment a sound physicist can do wonderful work."

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

"Photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing."

"This is my best work, but only because The Flaming Angel is my greatest."

"That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that…"

"another and longer variant: I now abandon work. It penetrated so deeply and so gently into me, I feel it an…"

"We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it."